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NRCPFC Weekly Update 2/10/10








 
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The 13th National Child Welfare Data and Technology Conference: Call for Papers
Conference Date/Location: July 19 – 21, 2010, Washington, DC area
The National Resource Center for Child Welfare Data and Technology (NRCCWDT) invites colleagues in the courts, Tribes and States to share their efforts in effectively integrating data to improve child welfare services and outcomes to children, youth and families and to demonstrate how the approach may be used by others. NRCCWDT particularly invites Tribal leaders, both in child welfare and the Tribal courts to share their efforts at collecting, integrating and using data to inform their services and systems. The conference will highlight successful data integration and will explore the process of combining data from various sources to provide users with a clear and unified perspective of complex issues. Another form of data integration they aim to explore relates to the use of data to inform practice, to plan, to manage, and to measure results. Submission deadline: Friday, February 26, 2010. For more details on the conference and/or call for papers, click the _link_ below. 
https://www.nrccwdt.org/conferences/our_conf.html



 
 



 
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Non-Resident Father Engagement and the Child Welfare System - Bringing Back the Dads
Webinar Date/Time: Thursday, February 18, 2010, 2:00 p.m. EST
This American Humane webinar will focus on using Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) to engage absent fathers in the lives of children who are involved in the child welfare system. Participants will learn what literature and research have shown regarding how fathers interact with child welfare systems, how father involvement may benefit children’s overall well-being and how engaging fathers through FGDM can better connect them and paternal kin to their system-involved children. Participants will also learn practices that have enhanced the engagement process between child welfare practitioners and non-resident fathers.
http://www.americanhumane.org/protecting-children/conferences-trainings/family-group-decision-making-teleconference-series.html



 
 



 
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Working Effectively with Children of the Incarcerated, their Parents and Caregivers
These video modules from the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services are designed to help social workers and other social service providers understand the particular needs of families with an incarcerated parent and learn effective practices in working with children of the incarcerated, their parents and caregivers. (2009)
http://www.dshs.wa.gov/ca/pubs/cfip.asp



 
 



 
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Permanency: More than Just Homes
This article on achieving timely permanency intended for CASA volunteers also offers guidance to child welfare workers and others. Permanency:  More Than Just Homes was authored by Martin Westerman. The article begins by describing the importance of permanency for foster children, and goes on to detail several concrete strategies for practice, including concurrent planning and dual licensing of foster and adoptive parents. Two tools are described for identifying important connections and potential permanency options for children who cannot reunify:  The Connectedness Map, developed by Santa Cruz County, California helps children identify their important personal connections, which are then noted and color coded to describe biological, love, spiritual and mental relationships. A Connections Circle tool utilized in a National CASA research study is another method to assist young people in identifying their important relationships, and the degree of closeness of each one.  Permanency:  More Than Just Homes appears in the Summer 2009 issue of The Connection, published by the National CASA Association. http://nc.casaforchildren.org/files/public/site/publications/theconnection/Summer2009/Connection_CoverStory_Summer2009.pdf


 
 



 
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New York State Citizens’ Coalition for Children Post Adoption Survey Results
A survey was undertaken by New York State Citizens’ Coalition for Children (NYSCCC) to help determine the post adoption service needs of families in New York State (NYS) in December 2009/January 2010.  The final report below includes information on current programs in NYS, research on post adoption service needs of families, the survey results, and recommendations for future services.
http://nysccc.org/adoption/post-adoption-services/postadoptsurvey/


 
 



 
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Developing Permanent, Supportive Connections While in Care: Foster Youth's Perspectives
A recent California study examined the experiences with permanency services of youth in foster care, as told by the youth themselves. The findings are reported in Developing Permanent, Supportive Connections While in Care: Foster Youth's Perspectives, authored by Sonja T. Lenz-Rashid and available from the Child & Family Policy Institute of California. The study gathered information from 27 young adults regarding the child welfare permanency services they had received while in foster care. As a central finding, most of the youth reported that they did not receive support from their child welfare workers about making connections to family or other adults while in care. To improve permanency services, the report recommends the following action steps for child welfare agencies:  Implementing Family and Permanent Connection Finding services for youth in foster care who are not placed with kin, especially those over age 13; Training new social workers, supervisors, and managers about the importance of promoting family placements; Assigning siblings in foster care the same social worker; Ensuring all foster care youth have a voice in their placements; _link_ing youth with mentors in the community.  
www.cfpic.org/pdfs/Permanency-Report-Lenz-Rashid092009.pdf


 
 
 




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